Fortune's Just Desserts

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Atlanta heiress Wendy Fortune was used to being overlooked by the rest of her powerful family. But when a last-ditch job at Red Rock's best restaurant revealed her hidden talents in the kitchen, she was determined to prove to everyone she could handle the pressure. Especially her tall, dark and sexy boss...

Marcos Mendoza had always lived by one rule: never, ever mix business with pleasure. It was bad enough he'd been pressured into hiring pampered playgirl Wendy Fortune. Now he had to fight his growing attraction to his sexy new pastry chef...an attraction Wendy was doing everything to encourage! Maybe a spoonful of sugar was just what the workaholic needed....

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Marie Ferrarella's Bio

Prolific romance author Marie Ferrarella swears she was
born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my
mother."

Born in West Germany of Polish parents, she came to America
when she was four years of age. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored
the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York. It was
there that she was to meet the man she would marry, truly her first love. Marie
was only 14 when she first laid eyes on her future husband, Charles Ferrarella.

From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching
television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace.
"Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective
on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked
about on Bonanza, and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. before
there was a Girl from U.N.C.L.E., not to mention an active participant
in the serialized stories on The Mickey Mouse Club."

Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was
11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize
it was a romance!

She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as
an actress.

During her days at Queens College, acting started to lose
its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. After receiving her English
degree, specializing in Shakespearean comedy, Marie and her family moved to
Southern California, where she still resides today.

After an interminable seven weeks apart, Charles decided
he couldn't live without her and came out to California to marry his childhood
sweetheart.

Ever practical, Marie was married in a wash-and-wear wedding
dress that she sewed herself, appliqués and all. "'Be prepared'
has always been my motto," the author jokes. This motto has been stretched
considerably by her two children, "but basically, it still applies,"
she says.

Marie has one goal: to entertain, to make people laugh and
feel good. "That's what makes me happy," she confesses. "That,
and a really good romantic evening with my husband." She's keeping her
fingers crossed that you enjoy reading her books as much as she's enjoyed writing
them!